Ashwin is the Lead geek at Techjoomla. The CTO so to say :) Ashwin has been dabbling with Joomla since the Mambo days. He knows his way around PHP Frameworks - Wordpress, Drupal, Magento as well any kind of coding in general just as well as he knows Joomla. The Guy to go to when anyone is faced with a tech challenge, its also his job to make...

Ashwin is the Lead geek at Techjoomla. The CTO so to say :) Ashwin has been dabbling with Joomla since the Mambo days. He knows his way around PHP Frameworks - Wordpress, Drupal, Magento as well any kind of coding in general just as well as he knows Joomla. The Guy to go to when anyone is faced with a tech challenge, its also his job to make sure the code getting shipped is top notch !

Ashwin loves to travel, eat, cook and of course speak at Joomla Conferences!

We’re very pleased to announce that we’ve a new partner Easy Profile! Easy Profile is a powerful component for Joomla that allows to profile users by using custom fields. Easy Profile also allows you to use integrations with the most important Social providers (Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn) to register/login users, assign user groups based on fields conditions and many other features.

Easy Profile can also become a full-feature social network component with our Social Network Plugin, you can create your community with only few clicks. We have JBolo and recently introduced new version of JGive tightly integrated with Easy Profile.

We’re looking forward to integrate more of our extensions with Easy Profile. With this partnership announcement, all our subscribers will be getting 20% DISCOUNT on Easy Profile. Make sure you make the most of it!

We have already seen how you can introduce filters to list views in the Joomla admin & collate them under the Search tools menu previously in our Blog last year.

The Search tools filters are extremely useful to admins especially if your extension manages a lot of data. As a usability feature, Joomla retains the state of the filters to the ones last used by the user.

In most cases, manually setting the filters will work just great for Admins. However there are some cases when knowing how to set filter parameters via the URL can be very useful.

JGive a premium crowdfunding extension for Joomla! is getting into a new era starting this release. As promised we are delivering all the features, in fact we’ve managed to add an extra one ;)

As we all know that crowdfunding has always been a favourite topic of discussion at the dinner table. The discussions mainly revolve around issues like trust building, ROI for investors, achieving donation targets for non profits etc. JGive has a perfect blend of features to make sure that all these important aspects are taken care of.

What are the newly added features?

Campaign promotion using Invitex

Achieving a campaign donation / investment goal within the decided time is of prime importance. Now to overcome this challenge promoting the campaigns is vital. With this new campaign promotion feature viral invitations using Invitex asking people to donate/ invest on your campaign can be sent to people, resulting in improved rate of donation / investments.

We are regularly rolling out updated Beta versions of Shika as promised. In previous blogs you might have noticed that we’ve said that the feature list for version 1.0 has been finalized and we will not be adding any new features till 1.1.

A Video link without a thumbnail is like a smartphone without a camera, you can use it but no one would like to use it. If you want your visitors to see your video, you need to make sure that your video link has a thumbnail which is forcing users to click on the link.

JGive! A premium crowdfunding extension for Joomla! which is getting into a new era starting this release. After much thought out process and keeping all the necessary most asked features in mind we have come up with a roadmap for JGive 1.7 .

What all is coming in JGive 1.7?

Campaign promotion using invitex

Campaign Specific Video gallery

Quick Donation

Easyprofile community Integration

Our existing JGive subscribers have been waiting for these features to come in. We will be making this release somewhere by the end of 1st week of June.

All the features will be explained in detail with screenshots and an updated demo so that you can experience them on release date. Stay tuned for more updates!

PayPlans by ReadyBytes is a Joomla! membership software for selling your services online & provides automatic subscription and effortless billing management. We have always recommended PayPlans to our customers plus we have some great integrations with them too !

As part of the celebration, the awesome guys at ReadyBytes have offered to give a cool 30% OFF on PayPlans subscriptions !!

As you may have read it in the news, tragedy has struck Nepal and thousands have perished and many more are rendered homeless and are in need of help.

We are launching Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund with equal support and participation of top companies in the Joomla! sphere and are are pledging 10% of our sales in the next 7 days for the Nepal relief fund and would like to request you all to join hands with us to make this a worthwhile effort.

Buy from any of the 5 companies and your contribution will make a difference for someone in need.

10% of our revenue during these 7 days will be forwarded to the Nepal Government relief fund by us. We are sure, our effort would help a few to sail through this tough time and encourage others to take the initiative to newer heights.

Shop more to donate more. Let's stand together for our friends in Nepal!

It has been really long since the Beta 10 release of Shika! As we all know that we are really close to the stable release which can happen anytime soon. Entire feature list has been finalized and this is the Beta 11 we are rolling out.

You will be overwhelmed to see the number of Bug fixes (500+) done in Shika after Beta 10, especially if you are an Early Adopter!

Why is it taking so long to release a stable version?

Techjoomla has implemented a new stability matrix (Which will take our product's quality to new heights). All our products will undergo a deeper, closer QA tests.

Every change needs some time to be incorporated! Our devs are still used to Techjoomla's conventional QA and development methods and it is taking time for making them adapt to the new stability matrix.

We agree that this is time consuming but Rome was not built in a day! Shika 1.0 will be the most stable product delivered by us.

We are blogging about the change in the Development and the QA process at Techjoomla. You have a look at the first blog here.

Stability Matrix for this release!

Socialads is not just an advertising tool for Joomla it is much more than that. It has plenty of stuff which can give your advertisers a whole new experience of advance trafficking and you can convert those in terms of revenue. One such feature in SocialAds is Geo-targeting.

Targeting is something which most of the advertisers want to do by targeting a specific group of people whether it is based in age, gender, area or any community etc. for their advertisements. In such a case, advertisers tend to focus on their unique selling proposition (what makes them different and better than competitors) and target specific markets.

JBolo 3.2 gets you the most awaited feature of message synchronization with JomSocial and EasySocial. People will be able to see their chats on the messenger and in the message inbox just the way it happens on Facebook, isn’t that fantastic? So, all the JomSocial and EasySocial users will be tempted to hit the Buy Button now. ;)

Top Joomla! extension developers from all over the world have joined hands to get this fantastic CMS out. This is a Pro version of Joomla! Everything is same when it comes to developing extensions for Joomla! or developing extensions for Joomla Pro!

The only difference is its features. These developers have some gifted abilities to see beyond Joomla! With these abilities and endless coding efforts they’ve got us some exciting features giving birth to Joomla Pro!

Unbelieveable feature list

Awesome Spam Protection

Joomla Pro’s Face Recognition is tough on bots and easy on humans, which is replacing google’s reCaptcha from Joomla 3.4. You just have to make sure that your webcam is on that’s it.

Techjoomla has joined hands with the creative people from Joomlashine to bring JGive users a beautiful treat! JSN Fidem, their latest offering brings a specular new user interface for JGive. Non Profit organisations, Charities as well as religious organisations like Churches will find JSN Fidem a great way to start their site or refresh their existing ones!

Joomlashine is one of the leading template providers for Joomla and produces easy to install, high quality templates. We have worked with the Joomlashine team to make sure JGive looks great with JSN Fidem.

Its not been a really long time after Beta 9 and we are already out with Shika Beta 10 for you. Our developers have made efforts to fix most of the issues assigned by our very own Early Adopters as well as some important issues which were needed to be fixed on priority, crossing 80+ bug fixes. :)

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